On Work: Finding 'Fun' Within Limitations, My Theory on Multiple Careers | Omamori Zukan

I currently work in a 'multiple career' style.

I am a fortune teller, a part-time customer service worker, a temporary sales administrative assistant, and a writer and illustrator.
When I write it all out, I have to smile wryly and wonder if I'm doing too much, but this is the form I arrived at after experiencing various jobs and working as a full-time employee.

Of course, it is true that working as a full-time employee is more stable, both financially and in terms of social standing.
Even so, I chose this path because I have too many things I want to do, and above all, I want to use up the limited time that is my life without any regrets.
Time, that precious life I might have once nearly lost.
Because of that, the feeling that I should choose a way of life that I can say I 'love' is at the root of who I am today. Precisely because I am currently free from the constraints of marriage or raising children, I also feel it would be a waste not to use up my potential.

If I were to list the practical problems, there would be no end to them, but for me, working is by no means a 'time of endurance'.
Rather, it is about how to turn it into an 'interesting time.' It is a little different from enjoying freedom; it is about how to find fun in the limitations and irrationalities given to you. I believe that work is a place to hone that skill.
To have a point of contact with society and to find one's own value as a reward.
Even if that reward is not always satisfactory, perhaps 'work' includes even that irrationality.

There is no single correct answer to how to work.
Precisely because we spend so much of our lives working, I want it to be a place where I can be myself and stay in a good mood as much as possible.

That said, all sorts of things happen.
I spend my days searching for my own answers while embracing all of that as part of my 'work'.